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Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story was published online March 17. It wasn’t supposed to end this way for Notre Dame. Not in the NIT. Not with senior forward Bonzie Colson on the bench with yet another injury to his left foot. And it certainly wasn’t supposed to end on St. Patrick’s Day

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After clinching the Big Ten regular-season championship earlier in the season, the Irish earned an automatic trip to the semifinals of the postseason tournament. After a week and a half off, the Irish will retake the ice Saturday to take on Penn State. For Irish head coach Jeff Jackson, the extra time off has been

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No. 1 Notre Dame spent the weekend up north in Minneapolis playing a conference road series against No. 13 Minnesota. The Irish fell 1-0 on Friday night on a late overtime goal from Minnesota freshman phenom and Buffalo Sabres first-round draft pick Casey Mittelstadt. Notre Dame rebounded on Saturday night with a 4-1 victory over

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For the first time in the relatively short history of the College Football Playoff, two teams from the same conference are in the final top-four rankings. And as disappointed as Urban Meyer and Ohio State are about being left out after winning their conference championship Saturday night, there’s little debate that Alabama is the more

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It’s that wonderful time of year. That time of year when the weather gets colder and we start seeing Christmas lights decorating neighborhood houses. Of course, I am talking about the college football coaching carousel season. Yes, that wonderful three to four week period beginning in late November through the early part of December where

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No. 6 Notre Dame swept its two-game weekend series against No. 19 Penn State in the team’s conference home opener at Compton Family Ice Arena. The Nittany Lions (5-7-0, 2-4-0-0) got on the board first during Friday night’s game, scoring 4:39 into the first period to give themselves a 1-0 lead. Notre Dame (8-3-1, 4-0-0-0) would

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This weekend, the sixth-ranked Irish will play host to the nineteenth-ranked Nittany Lions of Penn State at Compton Family Ice Arena. Penn State (5-5-0, 2-2-0 Big Ten) are coming off splitting a home series with Mercyhurst and will look to challenge the Irish (6-3-1, 2-0-0), who are coming off of a sweep of Ohio State in

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I’m no marketing major, but if Hallmark wanted to make some money, they should start a line of cards targeted at grieving Penn State fans. The front would read, “Sometimes you do all you can, but it’s not enough,” and you would open it to find the default message reads, “Sorry about you not making

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The committee got it right. If Penn State fans should have a complaint, it shouldn’t be that their team was left out — it should be about the opponent their team played in the Big Ten’s championship game Saturday. Two teams finished with 8-1 records this year in the Big Ten: Ohio State and Penn State. Logic

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There are five zero- or one-loss Power Five teams left in college football this season. Two of them play each other this week, while the other three are all from different conferences. Conventional wisdom says this will be easy enough, right? If Alabama, Clemson and Washington win out, they’re in the four-team playoff, while the